BOOKS

GIRL (1994)
Suburban teenager Andrea Marr and her friend Cybil explore the exploding "grunge" music scene in nineties Portland, OR. Excerpted in Sassy Magazine and made into a film. "A seminal coming of age text" --Vanity Fair

EXILE (1997)
Edgy New York poet gets sent to Oregon to teach at a local university. EXILE was published as an adult novel and is not recommended for younger readers.

USER (2001)
Young people in the early Techno scene. Also not recommended for younger readers.

THE NEW RULES OF HIGH SCHOOL (2003)
Max is an uptight, perfectionist. He's the editor of his high school paper and headed to a good college. Then he meets a bubbly, boy-crazy freshman writer-girl who breaks through his defenses.

ROCKSTAR SUPERSTAR (2004)
Band Geek Pete Brady gets recruited by a cool indie band and must learn how to be cool or get thrown out. Also, he gets his first girlfriend. "The best rock novel of the year," --Publisher's Weekly

PROM ANONYMOUS (2006)
Laura and Jace convince weirdo Chloe to go to their high school prom. She does and when she gets there, she hides under the table.

PARANOID PARK (2006)
A suburban teen accidentally kills a security guard in a deserted train yard. Obviously he should report it. Or should he? Adapted into an award winning film by Gus Van Sant.

THEY CAME FROM BELOW (2007)
Aliens have lived at the bottom of the ocean for millions of years. They've seen everything that's ever happened on earth. When they do venture to the surface, they meet two teenaged girls. KLIATT'S Editors Choice for 2007.

RECOVERY ROAD(2011)
Maddie and Stewart are two teenagers with a lot of issues. They meet in rehab and love blossoms. Publisher's Weekly, in a starred review, said: "This is an important story that pulls no punches." Look for the TV Series on ABC FAMILY in January 2016.

DREAM SCHOOL (GIRL #2) (2012)
This novel is the sequel to GIRL. The story follows Andrea, as a fish out of water, at distinguished Wellington University. The Seattle Stranger called GIRL and DREAM SCHOOL: "The missing link between Bret Easton Ellis and Tao Lin."

THE PRINCE OF VENICE BEACH(2014)
Robert Callahan is a teenage runaway who occasionally helps the authorities find other teen runaways. Except when he's helping them hide from the authorities. An Edgar Award Finalist. Junior Guild Selection.THE CITY WANTS YOU ALONE (GIRL #3) (2015)
Andrea Marr, freshly kicked out of college, retreats to her hometown of Portland, OR and takes a job at J Crew. After a year though, her ambition to become a writer drives her to make the leap to New York City, where she contends with the challenges and opportunities of the big city.